we have a government of laws and we have to proceed under the rule of law. i appreciate everything that has been set but there's no reason to believe when john made this very interesting statement that he was actually saying the department of justice -- >> will the gentleman yield? >> >> that's exactly the point of the line of questioning. there was an inference made. maybe i should have called mchugh directly but when that inference was made and we were going to have the attorney general testify here today, i think it's important that if there was coordination between d.o.d. and the justice department on how this case was going to move forward and how it was going to be handled, that it would be fair to ask the attorney general, in what exsity is that going on? he's answered those questions but i think the people standing in the back of the room deserve to at least try to get to the bottom of it and if you don't have the answers to these questions, you done have the answers to these questions. and if it's mr importantly in d. -- more appropriately in d.o.d.